Three time Oscar-nominated scribe John Logan is adapting National Book Award-winning author Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West for the big screen for New Regency.
John Hillcoat, who previously adapted McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road, will direct and produce along with Keith Redmon for New Regency.
The sprawling novel is widely considered one of the greatest works of American literature. Published in 1985, Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West is an epic tale of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward expansion which brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of a 14-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
John Hillcoat, who previously adapted McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road, will direct and produce along with Keith Redmon for New Regency.
The sprawling novel is widely considered one of the greatest works of American literature. Published in 1985, Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West is an epic tale of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward expansion which brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of a 14-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
- 4/24/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
History TV18’s award-winning docu-series, ‘India: Marvels & Mysteries’ returns in a brand new season, with noted Indophile and acclaimed author, William Dalrymple. The quest to uncover forgotten facts, revisit centuries-old stories lost to time, begins anew. The show explores historical sites, revisits cold trails and shines the light on unanswered questions about India’s incredible past and her many wonders, like never before.
It also offers new perspectives on mighty empires, characters from Indian history, our ancestors, and their knowledge of complex phenomena. The series comprises half-hour thematic episodes, each with multiple stories that traverse the length and breadth of India, spanning millennia.
The show will take audiences on an immersive exploration of India. Each episode in the seven-part series promises an unforgettable experience. Dramatic recreations with actors in period costumes bring to life amazing stories and untold histories behind India’s enigmatic structures – from jaw-dropping marvels and celebrated monuments to relatively little-known sites,...
It also offers new perspectives on mighty empires, characters from Indian history, our ancestors, and their knowledge of complex phenomena. The series comprises half-hour thematic episodes, each with multiple stories that traverse the length and breadth of India, spanning millennia.
The show will take audiences on an immersive exploration of India. Each episode in the seven-part series promises an unforgettable experience. Dramatic recreations with actors in period costumes bring to life amazing stories and untold histories behind India’s enigmatic structures – from jaw-dropping marvels and celebrated monuments to relatively little-known sites,...
- 12/28/2023
- by Editorial Desk
- GlamSham
Actor Boman Irani, who has lent his voice to the documentary film ‘1947: Brexit India’, shared that it is an exploration of a human tragedy and called it a “pivotal moment” in India’s history.
‘1947: Brexit India’, which is an Indo-us production, has been officially selected to be showcased at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) 2023 in Goa. The documentary presents a compelling exploration of the events surrounding Britain’s abrupt exit from India in 1947.
The film boasts an ensemble of distinguished personalities, including Shashi Tharoor, William Dalrymple, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Uday Bhaskar, Professor M. Rajivlochan, Allister Hinds, professor Tom Tomlinson, David Omissi and Gurharpal Singh. It has been written by Shama Zaidi, and directed and co-produced by Sanjivan Lal who previously helmed the acclaimed film ‘Bubble Gum’.
Talking about the film, Boman Irani shared: “As the narrator, I embraced the challenge of presenting a historical narrative to engage today’s audience.
‘1947: Brexit India’, which is an Indo-us production, has been officially selected to be showcased at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) 2023 in Goa. The documentary presents a compelling exploration of the events surrounding Britain’s abrupt exit from India in 1947.
The film boasts an ensemble of distinguished personalities, including Shashi Tharoor, William Dalrymple, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Uday Bhaskar, Professor M. Rajivlochan, Allister Hinds, professor Tom Tomlinson, David Omissi and Gurharpal Singh. It has been written by Shama Zaidi, and directed and co-produced by Sanjivan Lal who previously helmed the acclaimed film ‘Bubble Gum’.
Talking about the film, Boman Irani shared: “As the narrator, I embraced the challenge of presenting a historical narrative to engage today’s audience.
- 11/20/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Actor Boman Irani, who has lent his voice to the documentary film ‘1947: Brexit India’, shared that it is an exploration of a human tragedy and called it a “pivotal moment” in India’s history.
‘1947: Brexit India’, which is an Indo-us production, has been officially selected to be showcased at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) 2023 in Goa. The documentary presents a compelling exploration of the events surrounding Britain’s abrupt exit from India in 1947.
The film boasts an ensemble of distinguished personalities, including Shashi Tharoor, William Dalrymple, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Uday Bhaskar, Professor M. Rajivlochan, Allister Hinds, professor Tom Tomlinson, David Omissi and Gurharpal Singh. It has been written by Shama Zaidi, and directed and co-produced by Sanjivan Lal who previously helmed the acclaimed film ‘Bubble Gum’.
Talking about the film, Boman Irani shared: “As the narrator, I embraced the challenge of presenting a historical narrative to engage today’s audience.
‘1947: Brexit India’, which is an Indo-us production, has been officially selected to be showcased at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) 2023 in Goa. The documentary presents a compelling exploration of the events surrounding Britain’s abrupt exit from India in 1947.
The film boasts an ensemble of distinguished personalities, including Shashi Tharoor, William Dalrymple, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Uday Bhaskar, Professor M. Rajivlochan, Allister Hinds, professor Tom Tomlinson, David Omissi and Gurharpal Singh. It has been written by Shama Zaidi, and directed and co-produced by Sanjivan Lal who previously helmed the acclaimed film ‘Bubble Gum’.
Talking about the film, Boman Irani shared: “As the narrator, I embraced the challenge of presenting a historical narrative to engage today’s audience.
- 11/20/2023
- by Agency News Desk
Cormac McCarthy, generally considered one of America’s greatest living authors, has died. His death was confirmed by his son, John McCarthy. He was 89.
McCarthy is best known for books such as Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West; The Road, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and No Country For Old Men, which was adapted into the Coen Brothers’ Oscar-winning film.
His other published works include The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of Dark, Suttree, All the Pretty Horses – which won the National Book Award – The Crossing and Cities of the Plain. All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country were adapted for film by Billy Bob Thornton, John Hillcoat and Joel and Ethan Coen, respectively.
McCarthy told the Wall Street Journal that No Country for Old Men was originally a screenplay, but failed to gain traction in that form. “In fact, they said, ‘That will never work.
McCarthy is best known for books such as Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West; The Road, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and No Country For Old Men, which was adapted into the Coen Brothers’ Oscar-winning film.
His other published works include The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of Dark, Suttree, All the Pretty Horses – which won the National Book Award – The Crossing and Cities of the Plain. All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country were adapted for film by Billy Bob Thornton, John Hillcoat and Joel and Ethan Coen, respectively.
McCarthy told the Wall Street Journal that No Country for Old Men was originally a screenplay, but failed to gain traction in that form. “In fact, they said, ‘That will never work.
- 6/13/2023
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
‘The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company’, a book written by historian William Dalrymple, is set to be adapted for the screen. The book, which tells the story of how one of the world’s most biggest empires, the Mughal empire, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the British East India Company, will be turned into a series.
The book won accolades as President Barack Obama’s top 10 recommended books and was also the recipient of the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize.
Acclaimed screenwriter Jeremy Brock has been entrusted with the task of adapting the book for the screen. Brock is a BAFTA winning writer, director and producer, best known for his work in ‘Her Majesty Mrs Brown’, ‘The Last King of Scotland’, ‘Driving Lessons’, and ‘How I Live Now’.
With a career spanning over two decades, Brock is a member of both the American and British Academies.
The book won accolades as President Barack Obama’s top 10 recommended books and was also the recipient of the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize.
Acclaimed screenwriter Jeremy Brock has been entrusted with the task of adapting the book for the screen. Brock is a BAFTA winning writer, director and producer, best known for his work in ‘Her Majesty Mrs Brown’, ‘The Last King of Scotland’, ‘Driving Lessons’, and ‘How I Live Now’.
With a career spanning over two decades, Brock is a member of both the American and British Academies.
- 4/20/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
BAFTA-winning “The Last King of Scotland” writer Jeremy Brock will adapt independent studio Wiip and India’s Roy Kapur Films’ series based on the book “The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company” by author and historian William Dalrymple.
“The Anarchy” will be mounted as an international co-production between Wiip and Roy Kapur Films to be produced across the U.S., U.K. and India. The book tells the story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires, the Mughal empire, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the British East India Company – a dangerously unregulated private company based thousands of miles away in a small London office just five windows wide.
The bestselling historical book won accolades as President Barack Obama’s top 10 recommended books and one of The Wall Street Journal’s Best Books of the Year when it was published in 2019.
Executive producers...
“The Anarchy” will be mounted as an international co-production between Wiip and Roy Kapur Films to be produced across the U.S., U.K. and India. The book tells the story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires, the Mughal empire, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the British East India Company – a dangerously unregulated private company based thousands of miles away in a small London office just five windows wide.
The bestselling historical book won accolades as President Barack Obama’s top 10 recommended books and one of The Wall Street Journal’s Best Books of the Year when it was published in 2019.
Executive producers...
- 4/20/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
At the inaugural ceremony on Friday, the 11th edition kickstarted with Union Cabinet Minister of Labour and Employment, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav setting the stage with positivity and shayaris.
While he congratulated the organisers for curating the event and giving an opportunity to meet over books year after year, he said: "An informed mind is by nature an efficient mind. It is a positive mind and hence a more productive mind."
"Over centuries while Delhi has remained a site for geographical conquests, it has also morphed itself into a muse for poets and warriors alike," he added.
As he swiftly shared shayaris in between, Yadav made sure to highlight the importance of literature festivals.
He said: "Literature festivals are not just about writers and publishers trying to promote books. These are events that promote an educational and cultural exchange, which plays a crucial role in building healthy...
While he congratulated the organisers for curating the event and giving an opportunity to meet over books year after year, he said: "An informed mind is by nature an efficient mind. It is a positive mind and hence a more productive mind."
"Over centuries while Delhi has remained a site for geographical conquests, it has also morphed itself into a muse for poets and warriors alike," he added.
As he swiftly shared shayaris in between, Yadav made sure to highlight the importance of literature festivals.
He said: "Literature festivals are not just about writers and publishers trying to promote books. These are events that promote an educational and cultural exchange, which plays a crucial role in building healthy...
- 3/18/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
New Delhi, March 16 (Ians) Patrick French, the biographer of Sir Vidia Naipaul and Francis Younghusband, and Dean of the School of Art and Sciences at Ahmedabad University, passed away on Thursday in London, leaving behind his wife Meru Gokhale and four children.
He was 57 and suffering from cancer.
Reacting to the shocking news, fellow writer and Indophile William Dalrymple tweeted: “Heartbroken to hear about the death of Patrick French, who I have loved and admired since we were both thirteen, and who was the Best Man at my wedding. He was funny & clever & charming, always full of enthusiasm & energy. He was also the greatest biographer of our generation.”
At the time of his death, French was writing a biography of British-Zimbabwean Nobel laureate Doris Lessing.
He first attracted the attention of the world with his authoritative account of the life and adventures of Sir Francis Younghusband, the British explorer and diplomatist who revealed,...
He was 57 and suffering from cancer.
Reacting to the shocking news, fellow writer and Indophile William Dalrymple tweeted: “Heartbroken to hear about the death of Patrick French, who I have loved and admired since we were both thirteen, and who was the Best Man at my wedding. He was funny & clever & charming, always full of enthusiasm & energy. He was also the greatest biographer of our generation.”
At the time of his death, French was writing a biography of British-Zimbabwean Nobel laureate Doris Lessing.
He first attracted the attention of the world with his authoritative account of the life and adventures of Sir Francis Younghusband, the British explorer and diplomatist who revealed,...
- 3/16/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
New Delhi, March 16 (Ians) Patrick French, the biographer of Sir Vidia Naipaul and Francis Younghusband, and Dean of the School of Art and Sciences at Ahmedabad University, passed away on Thursday in London, leaving behind his wife Meru Gokhale and four children.
He was 57 and suffering from cancer.
Reacting to the shocking news, fellow writer and Indophile William Dalrymple tweeted: “Heartbroken to hear about the death of Patrick French, who I have loved and admired since we were both thirteen, and who was the Best Man at my wedding. He was funny & clever & charming, always full of enthusiasm & energy. He was also the greatest biographer of our generation.”
At the time of his death, French was writing a biography of British-Zimbabwean Nobel laureate Doris Lessing.
He first attracted the attention of the world with his authoritative account of the life and adventures of Sir Francis Younghusband, the British explorer and diplomatist who revealed,...
He was 57 and suffering from cancer.
Reacting to the shocking news, fellow writer and Indophile William Dalrymple tweeted: “Heartbroken to hear about the death of Patrick French, who I have loved and admired since we were both thirteen, and who was the Best Man at my wedding. He was funny & clever & charming, always full of enthusiasm & energy. He was also the greatest biographer of our generation.”
At the time of his death, French was writing a biography of British-Zimbabwean Nobel laureate Doris Lessing.
He first attracted the attention of the world with his authoritative account of the life and adventures of Sir Francis Younghusband, the British explorer and diplomatist who revealed,...
- 3/16/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
SonyLIV’s Rocket Boys, about Indian scientists Dr. Homi J. Bhabha and Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed web series in India last year, winning multiple awards for its performances, writing and direction.
Created by Nikkhil Advani and directed by Abhay Pannu, the series was set over three decades from the 1940s to 1960s and followed Bhabha’s attempts to launch India’s nuclear program and Sarabhai’s attempts to launch the country’s space program. Jim Sarbh and Ishawk Singh played the two scientists, and the show was produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur’s Roy Kapur Films and Advani’s Emmay Entertainment.
With Season 2 launching today (March 16), Advani and Roy Kapur talked to Deadline about how the story has been taken forward and how India’s recent history has become a hot new topic in local drama. Again, directed by Pannu, Season 2 covers...
Created by Nikkhil Advani and directed by Abhay Pannu, the series was set over three decades from the 1940s to 1960s and followed Bhabha’s attempts to launch India’s nuclear program and Sarabhai’s attempts to launch the country’s space program. Jim Sarbh and Ishawk Singh played the two scientists, and the show was produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur’s Roy Kapur Films and Advani’s Emmay Entertainment.
With Season 2 launching today (March 16), Advani and Roy Kapur talked to Deadline about how the story has been taken forward and how India’s recent history has become a hot new topic in local drama. Again, directed by Pannu, Season 2 covers...
- 3/16/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
“Besides some upcoming performances, I am working on a couple of projects including continuing on ‘Women on Record’, a celebration of women in the gramophone era. Besides, my series on the rendition of Begum Akhtar’s works will complete 10 years in 2023. I am doing a concert centered around that wherein will be weaved anecdotes of Akhtar’s life. It will be about honouring her as an artist, and her life as well,” she tells Ians.
Though initially trained in Carnatic music, she later received guidance in the North Indian genres of Khayal (from Shubha Mudgal and Mujahid Hussain Khan), Thumri Dadra, and Ghazal (from Shanti Hiranand). Shah has performed at several prestigious national and international forums, including the Tansen Samaroh in Gwalior, The Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C., The Asia Society in New York and the British Museum in London.
Also planning to work with historian William Dalrymple on...
Though initially trained in Carnatic music, she later received guidance in the North Indian genres of Khayal (from Shubha Mudgal and Mujahid Hussain Khan), Thumri Dadra, and Ghazal (from Shanti Hiranand). Shah has performed at several prestigious national and international forums, including the Tansen Samaroh in Gwalior, The Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C., The Asia Society in New York and the British Museum in London.
Also planning to work with historian William Dalrymple on...
- 1/3/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Former Disney India head Siddharth Roy Kapur, producer of Oscar-shortlisted film “Last Film Show,” has an eclectic range of films and series due in 2023 from his Roy Kapur Films outfit.
Due in the first half of 2023 is war epic film “Pippa,” a coproduction with Ronnie Screwvala’s RSVP, directed by Raja Krishna Menon (“Airlift”) and starring Ishaan (“A Suitable Boy”) and Mrunal Thakur (“Sita Ramam”) with music by A.R. Rahman. Arshad Syed’s film “Woh Ladki Hai Kahaan?,” coproduced by Junglee Pictures, is a screwball comedy starring Taapsee Pannu (“Blurr”) and Pratik Gandhi (“Scam 1992”). Another film, comedy-drama “Bas Karo Aunty!,” stars Ishwak Singh (“Rocket Boys”), is directed by debutant Abhishek Sinha, written by Nitesh Tiwari (“Dangal”), and coproduced by Tiwari’s Earthsky Pictures and RSVP for Disney+ Hotstar.
Returning series include the second seasons of “Aranyak” and “Rocket Boys,” on Netflix and SonyLIV respectively.
There are eight new series in various stages of development.
Due in the first half of 2023 is war epic film “Pippa,” a coproduction with Ronnie Screwvala’s RSVP, directed by Raja Krishna Menon (“Airlift”) and starring Ishaan (“A Suitable Boy”) and Mrunal Thakur (“Sita Ramam”) with music by A.R. Rahman. Arshad Syed’s film “Woh Ladki Hai Kahaan?,” coproduced by Junglee Pictures, is a screwball comedy starring Taapsee Pannu (“Blurr”) and Pratik Gandhi (“Scam 1992”). Another film, comedy-drama “Bas Karo Aunty!,” stars Ishwak Singh (“Rocket Boys”), is directed by debutant Abhishek Sinha, written by Nitesh Tiwari (“Dangal”), and coproduced by Tiwari’s Earthsky Pictures and RSVP for Disney+ Hotstar.
Returning series include the second seasons of “Aranyak” and “Rocket Boys,” on Netflix and SonyLIV respectively.
There are eight new series in various stages of development.
- 12/31/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
India’s A.R. Rahman, the Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Grammy winning composer of “Slumdog Millionaire” will score the music for upcoming war film “Pippa.” In doing so he teams up with two of India’s leading producers.
The film is produced by Ronnie Screwvala’s RSVP and Siddharth Roy Kapur’s Roy Kapur Films, and directed by Raja Krishna Menon (“Airlift”). It stars Ishaan Khattar (“A Suitable Boy”), Mrunal Thakur (“Love Sonia”) and Priyanshu Painyuli (“Mirzapur”).
“Pippa” is based on the book “The Burning Chaffees,” written by Brigadier Balram Singh Mehta. Khattar will play Brigadier Mehta of the 45th Cavalry tank squadron who fought on India’s eastern front during the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971, which led to the creation of Bangladesh.
The film’s title is a reference to the Russian amphibious tank called the Pt-76, popularly known as “Pippa,” which features prominently in the film.
This will be...
The film is produced by Ronnie Screwvala’s RSVP and Siddharth Roy Kapur’s Roy Kapur Films, and directed by Raja Krishna Menon (“Airlift”). It stars Ishaan Khattar (“A Suitable Boy”), Mrunal Thakur (“Love Sonia”) and Priyanshu Painyuli (“Mirzapur”).
“Pippa” is based on the book “The Burning Chaffees,” written by Brigadier Balram Singh Mehta. Khattar will play Brigadier Mehta of the 45th Cavalry tank squadron who fought on India’s eastern front during the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971, which led to the creation of Bangladesh.
The film’s title is a reference to the Russian amphibious tank called the Pt-76, popularly known as “Pippa,” which features prominently in the film.
This will be...
- 2/4/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Independent studio Wiip (“Dickinson”) is adapting Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s play “1984,” based on George Orwell’s eponymous 1949 dystopian social science fiction novel, as a five-part series for television.
The play had successful runs at the U.K.’s Nottingham Playhouse and the West End, as well as on Broadway.
Executive producers on the series include Icke, Macmillan, and Wiip’s Paul Lee and David Flynn, with Flynn overseeing the project for the studio.
“As the world grapples with democracy and government in our divided age of surveillance, ‘fake news’ and truth decay, the urgency of Orwell’s masterpiece is undeniable,” said Icke and Macmillan. “The small screen feels like a natural home for his portrait of a society in which people trust their screens more than the world outside their windows. We couldn’t be more excited to work with Wiip to make a bold new version...
The play had successful runs at the U.K.’s Nottingham Playhouse and the West End, as well as on Broadway.
Executive producers on the series include Icke, Macmillan, and Wiip’s Paul Lee and David Flynn, with Flynn overseeing the project for the studio.
“As the world grapples with democracy and government in our divided age of surveillance, ‘fake news’ and truth decay, the urgency of Orwell’s masterpiece is undeniable,” said Icke and Macmillan. “The small screen feels like a natural home for his portrait of a society in which people trust their screens more than the world outside their windows. We couldn’t be more excited to work with Wiip to make a bold new version...
- 1/12/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Siddharth Roy Kapur And wiip’s Paul Lee
Earlier we announced that Indian producer Siddharth Roy Kapur’s production house, Roy Kapur Films, had acquired the audio-visual rights to William Dalrymple’s masterpiece bestseller, ‘The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of The East India Company. Now, we have learned the adaptation for an incredible television series has the green light!
The book tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires, the Mughal Empire, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the British East India Company – a dangerously unregulated private company based thousands of miles away in a small office just five windows wide.
The series will be mounted as an International co-production between independent studio wiip and Roy Kapur Films. Produced across the U.S., U.K. and India, wiip and Rkf intend to put together a diverse international team of writers to create a...
Earlier we announced that Indian producer Siddharth Roy Kapur’s production house, Roy Kapur Films, had acquired the audio-visual rights to William Dalrymple’s masterpiece bestseller, ‘The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of The East India Company. Now, we have learned the adaptation for an incredible television series has the green light!
The book tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires, the Mughal Empire, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the British East India Company – a dangerously unregulated private company based thousands of miles away in a small office just five windows wide.
The series will be mounted as an International co-production between independent studio wiip and Roy Kapur Films. Produced across the U.S., U.K. and India, wiip and Rkf intend to put together a diverse international team of writers to create a...
- 11/23/2020
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Exclusive: Historian William Dalrymple and journalist Anita Anand’s well-received history book Koh-i-Noor: The History Of The World’s Most Infamous Diamond has been optioned for a TV drama series adaptation by Paris, LA and Mumbai-based producers 185 Carat Films.
The book charts the winding true story of the Indian diamond, the 27th largest in the world, which is currently part of the British Crown Jewels. The precious stone changed hands between various factions in south and west Asia, until being ceded to Queen Victoria after the British annexation of the Punjab in 1849. The diamond has inspired much folklore over the decades and has become a symbol of power as it passed from one royal to another.
Producing for 185 Carat Films are Paris-based actress-turned-producer Koel Purie Rinchet (Rock On!!), LA-based international sales consultant and producer Raquel Carreras (All’s Faire in Love) and Mumbai-based producer Kamayani Punia (Crazy Mad Lover: Once Again...
The book charts the winding true story of the Indian diamond, the 27th largest in the world, which is currently part of the British Crown Jewels. The precious stone changed hands between various factions in south and west Asia, until being ceded to Queen Victoria after the British annexation of the Punjab in 1849. The diamond has inspired much folklore over the decades and has become a symbol of power as it passed from one royal to another.
Producing for 185 Carat Films are Paris-based actress-turned-producer Koel Purie Rinchet (Rock On!!), LA-based international sales consultant and producer Raquel Carreras (All’s Faire in Love) and Mumbai-based producer Kamayani Punia (Crazy Mad Lover: Once Again...
- 11/17/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
William Dalrymple’s best-selling historical book on colonialism “The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company,” is being adapted into a series by independent studio Wiip and India’s Roy Kapur Films.
Set during 1599 to 1802, “The Anarchy” traces the ascent of The East India Company against the decline and fall of the Mughal Empire. It provides an account of how a provincial trading start-up, run by 30 people from an office in a nondescript London building, became rulers of an entire sub-continent. The novel was listed by former U.S. President Barack Obama as among his top 10 recommended books of 2019.
Roy Kapur Films acquired rights to the book in June. Executive producers on the project include Wiip’s Paul Lee (“Dickinson”) and Mark Roybal (“No Country for Old Men”), Roy Kapur Films’ Siddharth Roy Kapur (“Dangal”) and XPat Productions’ Naz Haider and Siva Natarajan.
The series will be set...
Set during 1599 to 1802, “The Anarchy” traces the ascent of The East India Company against the decline and fall of the Mughal Empire. It provides an account of how a provincial trading start-up, run by 30 people from an office in a nondescript London building, became rulers of an entire sub-continent. The novel was listed by former U.S. President Barack Obama as among his top 10 recommended books of 2019.
Roy Kapur Films acquired rights to the book in June. Executive producers on the project include Wiip’s Paul Lee (“Dickinson”) and Mark Roybal (“No Country for Old Men”), Roy Kapur Films’ Siddharth Roy Kapur (“Dangal”) and XPat Productions’ Naz Haider and Siva Natarajan.
The series will be set...
- 11/2/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Ishaan Khatter will star in war film “Pippa,” produced by Indian industry veterans Ronnie Screwvala and Siddharth Roy Kapur. The film is to be directed by Raja Krishna Menon and will release towards the end of 2021.
Based on Brigadier Balram Singh Mehta’s book “The Burning Chaffees,” the film is set during the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971 that led to the formation of Bangladesh. Khatter plays Mehta and the titular “Pippa” is an affectionate name for a Russian-made amphibious war tank that played a prominent role in the proceedings.
Khatter debuted with Majid Majidi’s “Beyond the Clouds,” and is in Mira Nair’s adaptation of “A Suitable Boy” that is currently airing on the BBC in the U.K. and Ireland and will later be on Netflix worldwide excluding China, Canada and the U.S. Khatter said he was “exhilarated” to be in a film of magnitude and importance, and...
Based on Brigadier Balram Singh Mehta’s book “The Burning Chaffees,” the film is set during the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971 that led to the formation of Bangladesh. Khatter plays Mehta and the titular “Pippa” is an affectionate name for a Russian-made amphibious war tank that played a prominent role in the proceedings.
Khatter debuted with Majid Majidi’s “Beyond the Clouds,” and is in Mira Nair’s adaptation of “A Suitable Boy” that is currently airing on the BBC in the U.K. and Ireland and will later be on Netflix worldwide excluding China, Canada and the U.S. Khatter said he was “exhilarated” to be in a film of magnitude and importance, and...
- 8/14/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Prominent Indian producer Siddharth Roy Kapur, has launched one of the most ambitious television series to date, based on the duplicitous rise of the British Empire’s East India Company in India. His production house, Roy Kapur Films, announced that it has just acquired the audio-visual rights to William Dalrymple’s masterpiece bestseller, ‘The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of The East India Company’, which will now be adapted to a grand scale international production, helmed by Roy Kapur Films.
Roy Kapur, who has produced ‘Dangal’, India’s highest grossing film of all time, and most recently produced the Priyanka Chopra Jonas-starrer, ‘The Sky Is Pink’ and the acclaimed Netflix Original, ‘Yeh Ballet’, is now looking to produce one of the biggest international TV productions in history, harnessing his 15 years of cinema experience to collaborate with varied international minds and creatives for this global production.
‘The Anarchy’ was recently listed by...
Roy Kapur, who has produced ‘Dangal’, India’s highest grossing film of all time, and most recently produced the Priyanka Chopra Jonas-starrer, ‘The Sky Is Pink’ and the acclaimed Netflix Original, ‘Yeh Ballet’, is now looking to produce one of the biggest international TV productions in history, harnessing his 15 years of cinema experience to collaborate with varied international minds and creatives for this global production.
‘The Anarchy’ was recently listed by...
- 6/29/2020
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Prolific Indian producer Siddharth Roy Kapur has acquired audio-visual rights to author and historian William Dalrymple’s bestselling historical book on colonialism “The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company.”
Set during 1599 to 1802, “The Anarchy” traces the ascent of The East India Company against the decline and fall of the Mughal Empire. It provides an account of how a provincial trading start-up, run by thirty people from an office in a nondescript London building, became rulers of an entire sub-continent.
“The Anarchy” was recently listed by former U.S. President Barack Obama as amongst his top 10 recommended books of 2019.
Roy Kapur Films is planning a big-budget, grand-scale series adaptation of the book with as yet unnamed international co-production partners.
Roy Kapur, former MD of The Walt Disney Company India and current President of the Producers Guild of India, produced 2016’s “Dangal,” India’s biggest worldwide grosser of all time.
Set during 1599 to 1802, “The Anarchy” traces the ascent of The East India Company against the decline and fall of the Mughal Empire. It provides an account of how a provincial trading start-up, run by thirty people from an office in a nondescript London building, became rulers of an entire sub-continent.
“The Anarchy” was recently listed by former U.S. President Barack Obama as amongst his top 10 recommended books of 2019.
Roy Kapur Films is planning a big-budget, grand-scale series adaptation of the book with as yet unnamed international co-production partners.
Roy Kapur, former MD of The Walt Disney Company India and current President of the Producers Guild of India, produced 2016’s “Dangal,” India’s biggest worldwide grosser of all time.
- 6/23/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Siddharth Roy Kapur, former MD of The Walt Disney Company India and current president of the Producers Guild of India, has picked up exclusive screen rights to The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise Of The East India Company, William Dalrymple’s bestselling historical epic.
Released in 2019, the book encompasses more than 200 years, covering how the infamous East India Company rose to prominence against the decline and fall of the storied Mughal Empire. It provides a remarkable account of how a provincial trading start-up, run by thirty people from an office only five windows wide in a nondescript London building, became rulers of an entire sub-continent; in the process establishing the richest and most powerful empire in the history of the world.
The book received rave reviews including from Barack Obama, who named it among his top books of 2019.
Kapur is plotting a major TV adaptation of the text and is...
Released in 2019, the book encompasses more than 200 years, covering how the infamous East India Company rose to prominence against the decline and fall of the storied Mughal Empire. It provides a remarkable account of how a provincial trading start-up, run by thirty people from an office only five windows wide in a nondescript London building, became rulers of an entire sub-continent; in the process establishing the richest and most powerful empire in the history of the world.
The book received rave reviews including from Barack Obama, who named it among his top books of 2019.
Kapur is plotting a major TV adaptation of the text and is...
- 6/23/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Over 100 well-known names – including writers, actors, directors and musicians – have signed a pledge supporting Lorde's decision not to perform in Israel.
The statement was published in The Guardian following backlash over the Kiwi singer’s cancellation of her concert in Tel Aviv. It is a direct response to a full page ad published in the Washington Post on January 1 which called Lorde a bigot and also attacked her homeland of New Zealand.
“We deplore the bullying tactics being used to defend injustice against Palestinians and to suppress an artist’s freedom of conscience. We support Lorde’s right to take a stand,” reads the letter in The Guardian. "Shmuley Boteach, the author and promoter of the advert, supports Israel’s illegal settlements and wrote last month on Breitbart to thank Donald Trump for “electrifying the world” with his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in defiance of international law.
The statement was published in The Guardian following backlash over the Kiwi singer’s cancellation of her concert in Tel Aviv. It is a direct response to a full page ad published in the Washington Post on January 1 which called Lorde a bigot and also attacked her homeland of New Zealand.
“We deplore the bullying tactics being used to defend injustice against Palestinians and to suppress an artist’s freedom of conscience. We support Lorde’s right to take a stand,” reads the letter in The Guardian. "Shmuley Boteach, the author and promoter of the advert, supports Israel’s illegal settlements and wrote last month on Breitbart to thank Donald Trump for “electrifying the world” with his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in defiance of international law.
- 1/8/2018
- Look to the Stars
Exclusive: Six-parter produced by Rainmark Films readied for spring 2016.
The BBC has formally commissioned its “epic” Steve McQueen drama about the experiences of a black community in west London.
The corporation and UK indie Rainmark Films, the indie led by Game Of Thrones producer Frank Doelger and former BBC Films executive Tracey Scoffield, are aiming to shoot the as-yet-untitled six-part series in spring 2016.
McQueen, the Oscar-winning director of 12 Years A Slave, will direct and co-write the drama, alongside writers including Debbie Tucker Green, who won a Bafta TV award in 2012 for Channel 4 single Random.
The series will chronicle the lives of a group of friends and their families living in west London between the 1960s and the present day. It has been in development since January 2014.
In a bid to secure the services of in-demand director McQueen, BBC drama controller Ben Stephenson took the unusual step of commissioning the series before reading a script. Lucy Richer ordered...
The BBC has formally commissioned its “epic” Steve McQueen drama about the experiences of a black community in west London.
The corporation and UK indie Rainmark Films, the indie led by Game Of Thrones producer Frank Doelger and former BBC Films executive Tracey Scoffield, are aiming to shoot the as-yet-untitled six-part series in spring 2016.
McQueen, the Oscar-winning director of 12 Years A Slave, will direct and co-write the drama, alongside writers including Debbie Tucker Green, who won a Bafta TV award in 2012 for Channel 4 single Random.
The series will chronicle the lives of a group of friends and their families living in west London between the 1960s and the present day. It has been in development since January 2014.
In a bid to secure the services of in-demand director McQueen, BBC drama controller Ben Stephenson took the unusual step of commissioning the series before reading a script. Lucy Richer ordered...
- 3/30/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK production outfit finds sellers, festivals for busy slate.
UK production outfit Film and Music Entertainment (F&Me) has inked a deal for Stealth Media International to handle sales on Amsterdam Express, the first ever co-production between Albania and the UK.
Fatmir Koci’s film, about a young Albanian emigrant in Amsterdam who falls victim to drug and sex slave traffickers, will have its festival launch at Vienna’s Let’s Cee Festival.
F&Me’s busy production slate is finding favour with summer and autumn festivals.
Stealth are also handling Matthew Macfadyen vehicle Lost in Karastan, from British director Ben Hopkins, and Ida writer/director Pawel Pawlikowski, which gets its world premiere this week in competition at the Montreal World Film Festival.
The UK sales outfit pre-sold the film to Piffl in Germany.
Georgia-set The President, directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf and co-produced with Berlin-based Herzog und Bruemmer, is set to open the Orizzonti section of the...
UK production outfit Film and Music Entertainment (F&Me) has inked a deal for Stealth Media International to handle sales on Amsterdam Express, the first ever co-production between Albania and the UK.
Fatmir Koci’s film, about a young Albanian emigrant in Amsterdam who falls victim to drug and sex slave traffickers, will have its festival launch at Vienna’s Let’s Cee Festival.
F&Me’s busy production slate is finding favour with summer and autumn festivals.
Stealth are also handling Matthew Macfadyen vehicle Lost in Karastan, from British director Ben Hopkins, and Ida writer/director Pawel Pawlikowski, which gets its world premiere this week in competition at the Montreal World Film Festival.
The UK sales outfit pre-sold the film to Piffl in Germany.
Georgia-set The President, directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf and co-produced with Berlin-based Herzog und Bruemmer, is set to open the Orizzonti section of the...
- 8/18/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK production outfit finds sellers, festivals for busy slate.
UK production outfit Film and Music Entertainment (F&Me) has inked a deal for Stealth Media International to handle sales on Amsterdam Express, the first ever co-production between Albania and the UK.
Fatmir Koci’s film, about a young Albanian emigrant in Amsterdam who falls victim to drug and sex slave traffickers, will have its festival launch at Vienna’s Let’s Cee Festival.
F&Me’s busy production slate is finding favour with summer and autumn festivals.
Stealth are also handling Matthew Macfadyen vehicle Lost in Karastan, from British director Ben Hopkins, and Ida writer/director Pawel Pawlikowski, which gets its world premiere this week in competition at the Montreal World Film Festival.
The UK sales outfit pre-sold the film to Piffl in Germany.
Georgia-set The President, directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf and co-produced with Berlin-based Herzog und Bruemmer, is set to open the Orizzonti section of the...
UK production outfit Film and Music Entertainment (F&Me) has inked a deal for Stealth Media International to handle sales on Amsterdam Express, the first ever co-production between Albania and the UK.
Fatmir Koci’s film, about a young Albanian emigrant in Amsterdam who falls victim to drug and sex slave traffickers, will have its festival launch at Vienna’s Let’s Cee Festival.
F&Me’s busy production slate is finding favour with summer and autumn festivals.
Stealth are also handling Matthew Macfadyen vehicle Lost in Karastan, from British director Ben Hopkins, and Ida writer/director Pawel Pawlikowski, which gets its world premiere this week in competition at the Montreal World Film Festival.
The UK sales outfit pre-sold the film to Piffl in Germany.
Georgia-set The President, directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf and co-produced with Berlin-based Herzog und Bruemmer, is set to open the Orizzonti section of the...
- 8/18/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
India’s Ficci Frames conference, which is celebrating its 15th edition (March 12-14), has confirmed that Australia will be the partner country this year.
The partner state will be Karnataka, located in south India, which is home to the Kannada-language film industry. The state’s capital city, Bangalore, is also the high-tech centre of India.
Organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci), the convention is expecting 2,000 Indian and 600 foreign delegates this year, including speakers such as author William Dalrymple, the Federal Communications Commission’s Ajit Pai and PR guru Roger Fisk who worked on President Obama’s election campaign.
Keynote speakers also include TV18 Group managing director Raghav Bahl, India Today Group chairman Aroon Purie and Justin Osofsky, vice president of media partnerships at Facebook.
The theme of the conference will be “Media and Entertainment: Transforming Lives” – highlighting role of the media and entertainment industry as a vehicle for social change. In a year...
The partner state will be Karnataka, located in south India, which is home to the Kannada-language film industry. The state’s capital city, Bangalore, is also the high-tech centre of India.
Organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci), the convention is expecting 2,000 Indian and 600 foreign delegates this year, including speakers such as author William Dalrymple, the Federal Communications Commission’s Ajit Pai and PR guru Roger Fisk who worked on President Obama’s election campaign.
Keynote speakers also include TV18 Group managing director Raghav Bahl, India Today Group chairman Aroon Purie and Justin Osofsky, vice president of media partnerships at Facebook.
The theme of the conference will be “Media and Entertainment: Transforming Lives” – highlighting role of the media and entertainment industry as a vehicle for social change. In a year...
- 2/25/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
India’s Ficci Frames conference, which is celebrating its 15th edition (March 12-14), has confirmed that Australia will be the partner country this year.
The partner state will be Karnataka, located in south India, which is home to the Kannada-language film industry. The state’s capital city, Bangalore, is also the high-tech centre of India.
Organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci), the convention is expecting 2,000 Indian and 600 foreign delegates this year, including speakers such as author William Dalrymple, the Federal Communications Commission’s Ajit Pai and PR guru Roger Fisk who worked on President Obama’s election campaign.
Keynote speakers also include TV18 Group managing director Raghav Bahl, India Today Group chairman Aroon Purie and Justin Osofsky, vice president of media partnerships at Facebook.
The theme of the conference will be “Media and Entertainment: Transforming Lives” – highlighting role of the media and entertainment industry as a vehicle for social change. In a year...
The partner state will be Karnataka, located in south India, which is home to the Kannada-language film industry. The state’s capital city, Bangalore, is also the high-tech centre of India.
Organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci), the convention is expecting 2,000 Indian and 600 foreign delegates this year, including speakers such as author William Dalrymple, the Federal Communications Commission’s Ajit Pai and PR guru Roger Fisk who worked on President Obama’s election campaign.
Keynote speakers also include TV18 Group managing director Raghav Bahl, India Today Group chairman Aroon Purie and Justin Osofsky, vice president of media partnerships at Facebook.
The theme of the conference will be “Media and Entertainment: Transforming Lives” – highlighting role of the media and entertainment industry as a vehicle for social change. In a year...
- 2/25/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The President is one of a record eight features on 2014 production slate from Film & Music Entertainment.
Mike Downey & Sam Taylor’s London-based Film & Music Entertainment is launching a record eight features in 2014, representing total production budgets of $21m. This comes after six features totalling $12m in 2013.
Bac Films has come on board to handle international sales and serve as French co-producer for one of those eight, Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s The President, which is casting now for a February start of shoot in Georgia. As with their recent Georgian shoot for Ben Hopkins’ Epic, F&Me are partnering in Georgia with Vladimer Katcharava’s 20 Steps Productions as well as the Caucasian Film Service. Germany’s Herzog and Brümmer co-produces the $1.95m project.
Also in February, sequel documentary Streetkids United II – The Girls from Rio will start its shoot in Brazil, with a budget of $995,000 and directed by Mara Mourao. The Brazilian co-producer is Walkiria Barbosa of Total...
Mike Downey & Sam Taylor’s London-based Film & Music Entertainment is launching a record eight features in 2014, representing total production budgets of $21m. This comes after six features totalling $12m in 2013.
Bac Films has come on board to handle international sales and serve as French co-producer for one of those eight, Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s The President, which is casting now for a February start of shoot in Georgia. As with their recent Georgian shoot for Ben Hopkins’ Epic, F&Me are partnering in Georgia with Vladimer Katcharava’s 20 Steps Productions as well as the Caucasian Film Service. Germany’s Herzog and Brümmer co-produces the $1.95m project.
Also in February, sequel documentary Streetkids United II – The Girls from Rio will start its shoot in Brazil, with a budget of $995,000 and directed by Mara Mourao. The Brazilian co-producer is Walkiria Barbosa of Total...
- 12/4/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
From new voices like NoViolet Bulawayo to rediscovered old voices like James Salter, from Dave Eggers's satire to David Thomson's history of film, writers, Observer critics and others pick their favourite reads of 2013. And they tell us what they hope to find under the tree …
Curtis Sittenfeld
Novelist
My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...
Curtis Sittenfeld
Novelist
My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...
- 11/24/2013
- by Ali Smith, Robert McCrum, Tim Adams, Kate Kellaway, Rachel Cooke, Sebastian Faulks, Jackie Kay
- The Guardian - Film News
Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Malcolm Gladwell, Eleanor Catton and many more recommend the books that impressed them this year
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate) is a brilliant, sprawling, layered and unsentimental portrayal of contemporary China. It made me think and laugh. I also love Dave Eggers' The Circle (Hamish Hamilton), which is a sharp-eyed and funny satire about the obsession with "sharing" our lives through technology. It's convincing and a little creepy.
William Boyd
By strange coincidence two of the most intriguing art books I read this year had the word "Breakfast" in their titles. They were Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Greig (Jonathan Cape) and Breakfast at Sotheby's by Philip Hook (Particular). Greig's fascinating, intimate biography of Lucian Freud was a revelation. Every question I had about Freud – from the aesthetic to the intrusively gossipy – was...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate) is a brilliant, sprawling, layered and unsentimental portrayal of contemporary China. It made me think and laugh. I also love Dave Eggers' The Circle (Hamish Hamilton), which is a sharp-eyed and funny satire about the obsession with "sharing" our lives through technology. It's convincing and a little creepy.
William Boyd
By strange coincidence two of the most intriguing art books I read this year had the word "Breakfast" in their titles. They were Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Greig (Jonathan Cape) and Breakfast at Sotheby's by Philip Hook (Particular). Greig's fascinating, intimate biography of Lucian Freud was a revelation. Every question I had about Freud – from the aesthetic to the intrusively gossipy – was...
- 11/23/2013
- by Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Tom Stoppard, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, William Boyd, Bill Bryson, Shami Chakrabarti, Sarah Churchwell, Antonia Fraser, Mark Haddon, Robert Harris, Max Hastings, Philip Hensher, Simon Hoggart, AM Homes, John Lanchester, Mark Lawson, Robert Macfarlane, Andrew Motion, Ian Rankin, Lionel Shriver, Helen Simpson, Colm Tóibín, Richard Ford, John Gray, David Kynaston, Penelope Lively, Pankaj Mishra, Blake Morrison, Susie Orbach
- The Guardian - Film News
The Primexchange co-production workshop (Nov 18-24) is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year with a strong line-up of ten projects, along with guest project In Search Of A Miracle, based on William Dalrymple’s book Nine Lives.
Produced by the UK’s Film and Music Entertainment (F&Me), the docudrama follows four individuals in contemporary India as they pursue their devotion to a higher power. It is one of four UK projects selected for Primexchange this year – along with Rosemilk Productions’ psychological thriller Figments, Aimimage Productions’ Seven Stages and Avatar Productions’ The Importance Of Being Chunky.
Avatar’s project is a comedy about a cab driver enlisted to impersonate a Bollywood star. Thriller Seven Stages was selected in collaboration with Primexchange’s partners at Film London.
A co-production workshop which aims to foster collaboration between Indian and European producers, Primexchange selects ten projects each year – five from India and five from Europe. This year’s...
Produced by the UK’s Film and Music Entertainment (F&Me), the docudrama follows four individuals in contemporary India as they pursue their devotion to a higher power. It is one of four UK projects selected for Primexchange this year – along with Rosemilk Productions’ psychological thriller Figments, Aimimage Productions’ Seven Stages and Avatar Productions’ The Importance Of Being Chunky.
Avatar’s project is a comedy about a cab driver enlisted to impersonate a Bollywood star. Thriller Seven Stages was selected in collaboration with Primexchange’s partners at Film London.
A co-production workshop which aims to foster collaboration between Indian and European producers, Primexchange selects ten projects each year – five from India and five from Europe. This year’s...
- 11/21/2013
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
New Delhi, May 16: Designer Sabyassachi Mukherjee, the man behind styling Vidya Balan's look at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival, says that as "India is known as a bling country" he used a "little embellishment" to bring freshness.
Vidya made three appearances in traditional Indian costumes - maroon lehenga, an ivory sari paired with a brown blouse and light pink anarkali - on three different occasions on the festival inaugural day Wednesday.
Mukherjee says she was dressed in "a purist ethnic look, almost like a Golconda princess".
Drawing inspiration from William Dalrymple's book "The White Mughal" and the.
Vidya made three appearances in traditional Indian costumes - maroon lehenga, an ivory sari paired with a brown blouse and light pink anarkali - on three different occasions on the festival inaugural day Wednesday.
Mukherjee says she was dressed in "a purist ethnic look, almost like a Golconda princess".
Drawing inspiration from William Dalrymple's book "The White Mughal" and the.
- 5/16/2013
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
From a full programme of film and stage adaptations to a new James Bond novel, unpublished works by Rs Thomas and Wg Sebald and a new prize for women writers, 2013 is set to be a real page-turner
January
10th The Oscar nominations are announced unusually early this year. Keep an eye out for a bumper crop of literary adaptations, including David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, the David Nicholls-scripted Great Expectations, as well as Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Hobbit.
18th A new stage adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw at the Almeida theatre in London. In the year of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, his musical version will also feature around the country in both concert and stage performances.
24th The finalists for the fifth Man Booker International prize will be announced at the Jaipur festival.
January
10th The Oscar nominations are announced unusually early this year. Keep an eye out for a bumper crop of literary adaptations, including David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, the David Nicholls-scripted Great Expectations, as well as Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Hobbit.
18th A new stage adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw at the Almeida theatre in London. In the year of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, his musical version will also feature around the country in both concert and stage performances.
24th The finalists for the fifth Man Booker International prize will be announced at the Jaipur festival.
- 1/5/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Five writers give their personal takes on the appeal that makes Anna Karenina a literary masterpiece
Francine Prose, author of Blue Angel and My New American Life
Anna Karenina is probably my favourite novel. More than any other book, it persuades me that there is such a thing as human nature, and that some part of that nature remains fundamentally unaffected by history and culture. I try to re-read it every few years. Each time, perhaps because I'm older and have experienced more, I find things I never noticed before. Not only is it a great source of pleasure, but I inevitably feel as if I'm getting a sort of pep talk from Tolstoy: Go deeper. Try harder. Aim higher. Pay closer attention to the world. It's orchestral, symphonic, full of distinctive melodies, parallels and variations that keep reappearing, some of which we notice, none of which we need to...
Francine Prose, author of Blue Angel and My New American Life
Anna Karenina is probably my favourite novel. More than any other book, it persuades me that there is such a thing as human nature, and that some part of that nature remains fundamentally unaffected by history and culture. I try to re-read it every few years. Each time, perhaps because I'm older and have experienced more, I find things I never noticed before. Not only is it a great source of pleasure, but I inevitably feel as if I'm getting a sort of pep talk from Tolstoy: Go deeper. Try harder. Aim higher. Pay closer attention to the world. It's orchestral, symphonic, full of distinctive melodies, parallels and variations that keep reappearing, some of which we notice, none of which we need to...
- 9/3/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Jonathan Franzen's family epic, a new collection from Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin's love letters, a memoir centred on tiny Japanese sculptures ... which books most excited our writers this year?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
- 11/27/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
As the 21st century barrels into relatively undeveloped areas of the globe, traditions scatter like pins in a bowling lane. Left standing in its wake, though, are pockets of powerful indigenous practices and beliefs. And nowhere are there more of these than in the almost unimaginably diverse Indian subcontinent. Facing down the twin enemies of puritanism and modernism, devotees from a few of these threatened sects tell their stories in William Dalrymple’s beautiful, hopeful, heartbreaking Nine Lives: In Search Of The Sacred In Modern India. More than a collection of religious curiosities, Nine Lives portrays men and women trying ...
- 7/22/2010
- avclub.com
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